Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has an inferiority complex and feels like a stranger among her family. Virginia sees her older siblings as being slim and "perfect" until this image is shattered by the news of her brother's participation in a date rape on campus. Virginia begins to realize that images are only that - images. Virginia's mother, Doctor Shreves, is an adolescent psychologist who understands teenagers, but cannot counsel her family. Virginia is encouraged by the advice from her family doctor that she should be happy with her own body image, not her mother's image. In this humorous novel, readers vicariously experience numerous sensitive, real-life issues.--Ministry of Education website.

Health education grade 8 (2009).